Suggestion -- Boost Building

From: Duane Murphy (duanemurphy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-01-26 03:14:31

It seems a lot of questions come up on the list about "building" the
boost libraries. 

I wonder how many of these people realize that most of the functionality
of the Boost "libraries" is completely encapsulated in the header files?
There are significant portions like regex and the graph library (?) that
do require compiling, but much of it does not.

Is there anything that can be done to make it more clear that compiling
is often not necessary?

I'm just trying to relieve some stress from people who may very well not
require compiling. And I have compassion for those that do and are having
trouble.

I'm not sure exactly what can be done, but it might be worth some thought.

 ...Duane